Who Watched the Watchmen Artist?

[bcholmes]

So, I went downtown to see Dave Gibbons talk about The Watchmen. He was interviewed by Mark Askwith (who did a comic follow-up of The Prisoner, and who also worked on Prisoners of Gravity -- the greatest science-fiction interview show ever), and then he was signing copies of his new book, Watching the Watchmen. At one point I questioned whether or not some of the people in the room were born when The Watchmen first came out.

I have a hard-bound volume of The Watchmen (the Graphitti one from 1988?) and I got Gibbons to sign it. How nerdy does it make me that I can put my hands on a 20-year-old comic on short notice?

Comments

[ravensee.livejournal.com]

I'm so sad I missed it. Was there a big line up?

The Watchmen was the first graphic novel I've ever read and that was this year after it had been recommended to me for years. Since reading it I've been hooked on several different graphic novel series and devour them like the old X-men comics I still have stacked in my parents' basement.

[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

There were about 200 people in the line. Everyone had their stuff signed in a little more than an hour.

[professor-booty.livejournal.com]

Damn...I sorta wish I had shown up with my Absolute Watchmen.

I thumbed through the 'Watching the Watchmen' book in New York, and decided to give it a pass. The most interesting early character designs are already in the Absolute edition, and the Graphitti book that you have. Mostly, I saw a lot of thumbnail sketches for page layouts...kinda neat to see once, but not something I feel a need to own.

[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

sabotabby pointed out that today is Vagina Squid Day, so it's kinda significant that Dave Gibbons is here. (In the book, the big event happens on November 2nd).

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

Watchman is good, yes. But I thin Gibbons was picked as artist because his figures and architecture were solid and staid, lending substance the reality of the story.

It's curious who Moore gets to collaborate with him on graphic novels. You compare the artwork between Watchmen, V for Vendetta, From Hell, and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, they are worlds apart. But each is just right for the story.